About the Authors

Mary Thomas Derin

Affiliation Division of Medical Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, India

Perumal Vijayagopal

Affiliation Radiological Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India

Balasubramaniam Venkatraman

Affiliation Radiological Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India

Ramesh Chandra Chaubey

Affiliation Genetic Toxicology and Chromosome Studies Section, Cell Biology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Anilkumar Gopinathan

ganilkumar@vit.ac.in

Affiliation Division of Medical Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTD PV BV AG. Performed the experiments: MTD PV AG. Analyzed the data: MTD PV AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTD PV AG. Wrote the paper: MTD PV BV AG. Obtained permission from BARC: RCC. Permission to use facility at IGCAR Kalpakkam: BV. Permission to use laboratory facilities at VIT: AG.